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by Golden_Years on 04/09/2007

My grandson played this bizarre compact disc for me when he was visiting Mother and me during his “spring break” from college. He’s a good kid and bought us a compact disc player last Christmas. We’d yet to try the darn thing out. Most of the instructions were in Oriental and I couldn’t make heads or tails of them. Jeffrey showed us how to work it. It is similar to our 8-track. You can skip sections of the recording if you tire of them. I still prefer the phonograph, but mother says this is the newest way to listen to music recordings.

First of all, look at the photograph that comes with the recording! There appears to be witches and warlocks gathered in some haunted forest. One of the warlocks wields an axe for sacrificing babies to their pagan gods. This raised serious questions before the “songs” even began to play. I asked Jeffrey if he was involved in the occult. He assured me that he wasn’t and explained that the album pictured a band that played a type of music known as “freak-folk.” Freak is right! But, folk? I asked him if he knew about Peter Seeger and the Weavers. He told me that Seeger was a “square” and tried to chop up Bob Dylan’s electric guitar with an axe in 1965. I said, AMEN!

To my surprise I discovered that this band of gypsies (known as Feathers) is seemingly harmless. They play the type of medieval music that you can hear at the local Renaissance Fair or at the popular theme restaurant Medieval Times. I will look for them this year at the fair. However, I will wear my money belt! You can’t trust gypsies no matter how skinny they are.

I’m not sure if the singer is a man or a woman. But whatever gobbledygook it was singing was mostly unintelligible. Most of the “music” seemed to be played on small guitars of some sort and there is occasional chanting which could very well be “backward masking” (a common vessel for satanic messages). There was no piano or trombone in any of the songs! I can not recommend this compact disc. I think there are better ones out there. Barnes and Nobles has a whole section of them. King Arthur may have gone for this junk, but I’ll stick to my Benny Goodman record albums for now.

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